Some of you know that this was a big week around my household: RELEASE WEEK! Yep, that’s right. My wife had a book that came out on Tuesday. She’s had more than 40 of these days, but we repeatedly find ourselves in the same place – checking Amazon rankings every 5 minutes… just hitting refresh […]

I realized that I didn’t have a central place for my various walkthroughs on using Createspace 🙂 So here it is: What the heck is Createspace anyway? Createspace is a publishing service for physical books, CDs, and DVDs – the coolest part is that it is all on demand! Authors that were self-publishing used to have to purchase […]

Have an author website or blog and looking for some easy ways to connect with the readers? In this video, I answer the question from an author (Part 2 of 2): “I paid a service for 10000 visits to my website, but didn’t sell a single book. What am I doing wrong on my site? […]

I recieved the following question from an author: “I paid a service for 10000 visits to my website, but didn’t sell a single book. What am I doing wrong on my site? How can I get more people to buy my book?” This is a big question 🙂 So I’m splitting it into two parts. […]

For the past couple months, I’ve used YouTube in the most simplistic sense. I’ve just been posting videos and referencing/embedding them on my site. Yes, I’ve been violating the a major rule of social networking! I’ve been using a platform and building a list of followers (700+ in the last month) and have not fully filled out […]